Toward vegetal political ecology: Kyrgyzstan’s walnut–fruit forest and the politics of graftability

Fleming, Jake

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.12.009

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“…There is a growing body of research demonstrating the diversity of ways in which plants can be understood as intelligent and/or active beings within socio-ecological systems including across the fields of biology and botany (for reviews, see Cowell, 2018;Hall, 2011), geography (Fleming, 2017;Head & Atchison, 2009;Head, Atchison, & Phillips, 2015;Head, Atchison, Phillips, & Buckingham, 2014), anthropology and indigenous studies (Ellis, 2018;Hall, 2011;Kimmerer, 2013;Kohn, 2013;Rose, 2002), and philosophy (Marder, 2013(Marder, , 2016Plumwood, 1993). This interdisciplinary scholarship challenges basic assumptions that have historically kept plants painted into the backdrop of a livelier animal life.…”

Section: Pl Ant B Lindne Ss and Its Leg Acie Smentioning

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Illegal wildlife trade and the persistence of “plant blindness”

Margulies

Bullough

Hinsley

et al. 2019

Plants People Planet

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Societal Impact Statement A wide variety of plant species are threatened by illegal wildlife trade (IWT), and yet plants receive scant attention in IWT policy and research, a matter of pressing global concern. This review examines how “plant blindness” manifests within policy and research on IWT, with serious and detrimental effects for biodiversity conservation. We suggest several key points: (a) perhaps with the exception of the illegal timber market, plants are overlooked in IWT policy and research; (b) there is insufficient attention from funding agencies to the presence and persistence of illegal trade in plants; and (c) these absences are at least in part resultant from plant blindness as codified in governmental laws defining the meaning of “wildlife.” Summary This review investigates the ways in which “plant blindness,” first described by Wandersee and Schussler (1999, p. 82) as “the misguided anthropocentric ranking of plants as inferior to animals,” intersects with the contemporary boom in research and policy on illegal wildlife trade (IWT). We argue that plants have been largely ignored within this emerging conservation arena, with serious and detrimental effects for biodiversity conservation. With the exception of the illegal trade in timber, we show that plants are absent from much emerging scholarship, and receive scant attention by US and UK funding agencies often driving global efforts to address illegal wildlife trade, despite the high levels of threat many plants face. Our article concludes by discussing current challenges posed by plant blindness in IWT policy and research, but also suggests reasons for cautious optimism in addressing this critical issue for plant conservation.

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Section: Pl Ant B Lindne Ss and Its Leg Acie Smentioning

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Illegal wildlife trade and the persistence of “plant blindness”

Margulies

Bullough

Hinsley

et al. 2019

Plants People Planet

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“…Creating a more public image for “plantiness” (Fleming, ) is critical in an era in which “more than half of the world's human population live in urban areas” (Newport et al, , p. 204), and as a result may not be exposed to plants in the same way as previous generations. Thus, we can claim, as Kopnina does, that “even as ‘the human’ shares the stage with ‘the plant’ the discussion remains anchored in human perceptions and interpretations of plants, addressing questions of relatedness, exchange, governmentality and signification” (Kopnina, , p. 10), such as those of race and representation which Aloi examines (Aloi, ), social representation (Sachdev, ); illegal trade (Margulies et al, ; in this issue, pp.…”

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“…This statement, and Wandersee and Schussler's work on human plant vision, provides us with a reason for not seeing plants but fails to offer a much-needed recalibration and widening of our sensory awareness. Furthermore, in our human engagement with this difference it is important that we do not seek to subject plants to "terms of resemblance", anchored by "the human" Houle (2011, p. 95) but rather to engage with their "plantiness" (Fleming, 2017). student attention, whether these ideas and activities involve higher education biology students (Hartman, Lydon, & Rasmussen, 2019; in this issue, pp.…”

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“…Twenty years on, further work is required on the challenges they set society (Balding & Williams, ; Ro, ). For instance, in the face of climate change, diminishing biodiversity and increasing extinction (IPBES Global Assessment Report, ), humans need not only to notice plants in their daily lives, but also to engage more deeply with understanding their “plantiness—the set of characteristics and capacities specific to plants” (Fleming, , p. 27).…”

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Standing in the shadows of plants

Sanders

2019

Plants People Planet

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This special issue of Plants, People, Planet brings together a wide range of perspectives on the topic of “plant blindness”—the widest to date in one issue—with contributions from scholars working across a diverse range of disciplines, from the humanities and social sciences to plant science, conservation, and ecology. We also take this opportunity to showcase the work of visual artists working at the interface of art and plant science, and educators who use plants as a key subject in their education practice. The geographical reach of the contributions is also extensive with contributions from around the globe and the Twittersphere.

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“…Los trabajos que dentro de la ecología política hacen uso del posthumanismo para explorar el papel de los no humanos en la dinámica sociopolítica son cada vez más frecuentes y se suman a un conjunto más amplio de trabajos que desde otras disciplinas se abocan al análisis de la agencia no humana (Coyle, 2006;Whatmore, 2006;Hobson, 2007;Kohn, 2007;Robbins, 2007;Goedeke y Rikoon, 2008;Dempsey, 2010;Sundberg, 2011;Collard, 2012;Notzke, 2013;Brice, 2014;Doody et al, 2014;Head et al, 2014;Head et al 2015;Fleming, 2017;Sepúlveda Luque, 2018). Entre estos trabajos, existe un pequeño número de publicaciones que se asumen como estudios de ecología política posthumanista y que abordan tanto discusiones teóricas como situaciones empíricas concretas (Escobar, 2010;Sundberg, 2011;Notzke, 2013;Chagani, 2014;Gudynas, 2014;Fleming, 2017;Sepúlveda y Sundberg, 2017;Schulz, 2017;Sepúlveda Luque, 2018).…”

Section: Sobre Los Métodos Y Caminos De La Ecología Política Posthumaunclassified

Sobre la ecología política posthumanista

Durand¹,

Sundberg²

2019

SyA

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En este trabajo describimos la emergencia y desarrollo de una nueva generación de estudios en ecología política conocida como ecología política posthumanista. A partir de una amplia revisión de literatura, trazamos sus principales influencias, sus temas centrales de análisis y las ventajas que aporta para comprender nuestra relación con el entorno, en un momento en el que es cada vez más difícil distinguir entre los dominios de lo social y lo natural. La ecología política posthumanista, hace uso de conceptos como ontología relacional, agencia más que humana y performación, útiles para superar definiciones limitadas de lo humano y asignar grados variables de agencia a lo no humano. El desarrollo de metodologías adecuadas es un reto importante en esta área, pero es necesario considerar que no se trata de mejorar nuestras representaciones de lo no humano, sino de experimentar el entorno de nuevas maneras. La ecología política posthumanista nos ofrece nuevas vías para pensar y explorar nuestros encuentros con lo no humano y, al mismo tiempo, para reflexionar sobre lo que, hoy en día, significa ser humanos.

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Toward vegetal political ecology: Kyrgyzstan’s walnut–fruit forest and the politics of graftability

Cited by 45 publications

References 45 publications

Illegal wildlife trade and the persistence of “plant blindness”

Illegal wildlife trade and the persistence of “plant blindness”

Standing in the shadows of plants

Sobre la ecología política posthumanista

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